XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

[Nick Webb]

Hi All -

I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this 
seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered this list).

I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems >= 
2TB and I'm thinking of using XFS for it.  Main feature of XFS I need is 
the lack of fsck at startup (fsck for ext2/3 will take many hours with a 
2TB partition).  The file system will also likely have many large files, 
so XFS seems to be a good choice for this as well.

Can anyone share their XFS experiences on Ubuntu Dapper?  Is it as 
stable as ext3 in your experience?  Any tips/tricks/gotchas?  Any other 
file systems I should look at (JFS, ReiserFS, etc.)?

I posed the same question to other Linux users I know, and there was a 
mix of "I've had no problems" to "I stuck with ext3, it's solid and I 
know I can trust it, despite the horrible fsck times."  I'm really 
curious to get other opinions, especially with the shipped binaries on 
Dapper, as we only use LTS for production machines.

Thanks!

Nick


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